10 things you need to know today: December 4, 2012

Obama rejects the GOP's fiscal counteroffer, Iran says it nabbed a U.S. drone, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

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1. IRAN CLAIMS IT GRABBED A U.S. DRONE

Iran's navy says it has captured a U.S. surveillance drone that was flying over the Persian Gulf. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says the unmanned aircraft was brought down immediately after it entered Iranian airspace, according to the state-run news agency IRNA. A Pentagon official said it's unclear what kind of drone Iran nabbed — but it didn't belong to the U.S. "The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles operating in the Middle East region," the official said. "Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space." Last month, Iranian jets fired on a U.S. drone over the Gulf. Last year, another drone (launched from Afghanistan) crashed in the Iranian desert. [CNN]

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.